Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison, a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed, and the persistence of an unlikely supporter finally saw him free.
In telling the poignant story of Marengo, Jill Hamilton shows an unexpected side to the Emperor. She explores Napoleon’s enormous regard for horses as well as why it was Marengo, and Marengo alone, who became part of the Napoleonic legend – not Jaffa, Ali, Désirée or any of Napoleon’s many mounts.
Gothic is Richard Davenport-Hines’ magisterial study of the gothic imagination, from vampire novels to the modern day landscape of Bladerunner.
Captain Bligh’s Portable Nightmare is the account of an extraordinary journey, a great achievement in the history of European seafaring and a personal triumph for a man that has been misjudged by history.
An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form, a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.
The first comprehensive history of the UK government overseas intelligence service, MI6, by an acknowledged expert and author of the highly acclaimed Smear!
The dramatic true story of the love affair between Russia’s greatest poet, his wife and her lover, french hussar George d’Anthes – and the tragic duel that followed.
A gloriously illustrated history of a very English town, a site of royal courting and banishment, of scientific discovery and invention, of departure and exploration and the home of global time where the millennium will truly begin.
A history of royalty seen from floor level: the untold story of royal pets throughout the ages.
A gloriously illustrated history of a very English town, a site of royal courting and banishment, of scientific discovery and invention, of departure and exploration and the home of global time where the millennium will truly begin.
The dual biography of the great British comedy double-act and the rise and fall of mass audience television by the respected biographer of Cary Grant .
‘Gothic’ is Richard Davenport-Hines magisterial study of the gothic imagination from vampire novels to the modern day landscape of Bladerunner.
The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days.
A witty, erudite and very refreshing look at women’s obsession with cleaning and cleanliness and the history of housework.
The already legendary case of the passionate hostility of the sea and its ability to command the lives of those who draw their livelihoods from it, written with the vividness and narrative excitement of a novel
